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{"title":"Indirect Effects of Individual-Oriented Relationship Education on Children's Social-Emotional Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial of MotherWise.","authors":"Jenny Lee, Yunying Le, Galena K Rhoades","doi":"10.1111/famp.70189","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite growing evidence supporting the positive effects of individual-oriented relationship education on romantic relationship outcomes, few studies have explored impacts on child outcomes. This study examined indirect effects of MotherWise, a community-based perinatal program using the Within My Reach curriculum, on child social-emotional well-being. Perinatal individuals from marginalized groups were randomly assigned during pregnancy or within three months postpartum to the MotherWise program (n = 512) or the no-treatment control group (n = 437). Three mechanisms were assessed at 12-months post-enrollment: general conflict management skills, romantic relationship skills, and disapproval of relationship violence. Child problem behaviors and social-emotional competency were measured at 30-months post-enrollment. Path models were tested using Mplus to examine each mechanism individually and then all together in a combined model. Results are consistent with positive indirect effects of MotherWise on child outcomes. Compared to the control group, MotherWise participants reported better conflict management skills, romantic relationship skills, and greater disapproval of relationship violence at 12-months post-enrollment. These enhanced skills and knowledge were, in turn, associated with fewer problem behaviors and greater social-emotional competency for children at 30-months post-enrollment. The combined model supported that disapproval of relationship violence uniquely contributed to MotherWise's indirect effects on both child outcomes, while romantic relationship skills uniquely contributed to children's social-emotional competency. Results showed indirect benefits of individual-oriented relationship education for children and suggest that clinicians and community-based programs serving families can support child well-being by providing relationship education to individual parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":"e70189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13529592/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating Intimacy and Silence: Family Disclosure Strategies Among Young Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV.","authors":"Zurong Liang","doi":"10.1111/famp.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines how young Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) living with HIV navigate the disclosure or concealment of their sexual orientation and HIV status within family contexts shaped by Confucian moral norms. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 24 participants and a constructivist grounded theory approach, the study identifies five disclosure strategies: prior disclosure of sexual orientation followed by HIV disclosure, prior disclosure of sexual orientation with withheld HIV disclosure, simultaneous disclosure of both identities, non-disclosure of both identities, and HIV disclosure with withheld sexual orientation. Findings show that disclosure was not a discrete act but an ongoing relational process through which participants negotiated stigma, filial obligation, and family ties. Participants navigated the unequal moral meanings attached to HIV and sexual minority identity: HIV sometimes became a culturally intelligible condition that elicited care and reduced marriage pressure, whereas sexual minority identity remained more closely associated with filial failure, lineage expectations, and family reputation. To conceptualize these dynamics, the study develops an integrated framework of relational reconfiguration and the ethics of ambiguity. Relational reconfiguration captures how family relationships are reorganized through shifting boundaries, moral expectations, and roles, whereas the ethics of ambiguity refers to the culturally grounded strategy through which such reconfiguration is enabled and sustained. These findings suggest that practitioners should not treat full disclosure as a universal goal; instead, they should support culturally and relationally attuned disclosure planning, including partial, staged, or sibling-mediated pathways that allow individuals to maintain safety, care, and family connection under intersecting stigma.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":"e70193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148892858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Change in Emotion Regulation Difficulty in Clinical Couples.","authors":"Betsy Hughes Barrow, Angela B Bradford, Justin W Dyer, Alyssa Banford Witting, Lee N Johnson","doi":"10.1111/famp.70190","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation is central to managing emotions and interactions, making it essential for effective relationship functioning. Because emotion dysregulation contributes to many presenting problems in couple therapy, understanding it within clinical couples is vital, particularly when one or both partners have a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). While the link between ACEs and adult mental and relational challenges is well-established, research about how ACEs affect the therapy change process is still developing. Most existing research about ACEs has focused on cumulative ACE counts, with less attention to exposure to distinct ACE types (within the family context) and their differential effects on emotion regulation. The current study focuses on emotion regulation difficulty in clinical couples, exploring associations with frequency of exposure to individual ACE types-such as abuse, neglect, and various types of family of origin dysfunction-and levels of emotion regulation difficulty at intake as well as the trajectory of emotion regulation difficulty over 12 sessions of couple therapy. Findings were that emotional maltreatment (abuse and neglect) and mental illness in one's family of origin were associated with higher levels of emotion regulation difficulty at intake. Also, greater frequency of emotional neglect in childhood was associated with faster rates of change in emotion regulation difficulty over 12 therapy sessions. Findings suggest that assessing the frequency of family-of-origin adversity may be clinically relevant in couple therapy contexts and that individuals with histories of neglect may experience improvement in emotion regulation within supportive relational environments characteristic of couple therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":"e70190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13527539/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Post-Divorce Parenting and Co-Parenting in Times of Crisis","authors":"Ali Güngör","doi":"10.1111/famp.70192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70192","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how divorced single parents make sense of their parenting and co-parenting experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and the February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes in Türkiye. Using an interpretative phenomenological analysis design, the study draws on two-stage, semi-structured online interviews with 23 divorced parents who had been officially divorced for 1–5 years, lived with at least one child under the age of 18, and had experienced the crisis conditions addressed in the study, including direct exposure to the February 6, 2023, earthquakes. The analysis generated four interrelated themes: the fragility of co-parenting under crisis, the asymmetrical concentration of parenting burdens, the child's emotional burden within interparental tension, and the boundary-based reorganization of co-parenting. The findings show that crises did not simply add external stress to post-divorce family life; rather, they reactivated unresolved tensions around child-centered coordination, caregiving responsibilities, information sharing, boundaries, and decision-making with the former spouse. Participants' narratives further indicate that, although crises intensified relational fragility and parenting stress, they also prompted some parents to establish more limited, functional, and child-centered forms of communication. By making visible the intersection of divorce, crisis, and co-parenting in the Türkiye context, the study suggests that post-divorce support services should include crisis-responsive guidance on boundary-setting, child-centered information exchange, and gender-sensitive distribution of parenting responsibilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148849278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“What Are You Fighting for?” Working With Couples in Conflict","authors":"Carol Becker,&nbsp;John Sargent","doi":"10.1111/famp.70186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70186","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Couples in conflict often become trapped in recursive cycles of complaint and defensiveness, leading to demoralization and disconnection. This is a problem for the couple and the therapist. This paper offers the idea that when couples engage in conflict, it is often a response to not being able to connect or feel understood, empowered, and supported in their values. Couples' complaints show up directly and indirectly: they complain directly with words and indirectly with distressed emotion, behavior, and physiological dysregulation. To enable the therapist to help the couple interrupt the conflict and form a working alliance around a shared goal, we propose that therapist identify a relational need that resonates with each partner. The couple impasse creates urgency for these relational needs to be met, at the same time that it prevents the couple from meeting them. This paper offers a way to maintain engagement and direction when couple conflict threatens the couple bond and can disempower the therapist.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sibling Relationships in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis","authors":"Maryam Rafieifar,&nbsp;Ana Marcial,&nbsp;Mitra Naseh,&nbsp;Ana Ponciano","doi":"10.1111/famp.70188","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined how legal status differences shape comparison, caregiving, emotional strain, and solidarity among siblings in mixed-status immigrant families. Siblings play a critical role in immigrant family life, yet research has largely focused on parent–child dynamics. In mixed-status households, siblings hold different legal statuses, creating unequal opportunities and responsibilities that shape their relationships. A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis was conducted on 13 studies of US-connected mixed-status and transnational families, identified through systematic searches of four databases and forward and backward citation searching. Eligible studies used qualitative or mixed methods and reported on sibling experiences. Analysis involved quotation-level coding, constant comparison, and the development of third-order constructs. The evidence spanned the life course and predominantly represented families of Mexican origin, with Central American, Colombian, and Brazilian families also represented across U.S. and transnational contexts. Four overarching themes emerged: (a) legal status awareness and sibling comparisons; (b) emotional burden and relational strain; (c) parentification and unequal responsibilities; and (d) sibling solidarity, support, and adaptation. Sibling relationships in mixed-status families are shaped by legal status in ways that generate both strain and resilience. Siblings act as key agents of documentation status socialization, caregiving, and advocacy. Programs that include siblings, not only parents, are needed. Community-based supports can build on sibling solidarity while addressing emotional strain tied to status disparities. Clinical interventions should attend to power, privilege, and loss linked to unequal mobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148726274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to “Balanced Parenting: Proposing a Differentiation-Based Parenting Approach Informed by Bowen Family Systems Theory”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/famp.70187","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70187","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Miller, E. A.</span>, &amp; <span>Elder, C. R.</span> (<span>2025</span>). “ <span>Balanced parenting: Proposing a differentiation-based parenting approach informed by Bowen family systems theory</span>”. <i>Family Process</i>, <span>64</span>(<span>1</span>), e13092. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.13092.</p><p>In the original article (p. 2), Clark et al. (2008) was cited in support of the statement that “83% of parents engage in some form of helicopter parenting” and that parents cite “a hypercritical climate as the reason for their overprotection.” This was incorrect. The 83% figure comes from Shaki et al. (2022), which reported that 83% of parents in its sample exhibited helicopter parenting behaviors. The statement regarding a hypercritical environment as a reason for overprotection is from Clark et al. (2023), not Clark et al. (2008). Additionally, the phrase “not a good predictor” should read “not a strong predictor” in reference to the association between maternal sensitivity and later child outcomes (p. 7). Finally, Roisman et al. (2002) was cited in-text but omitted from the reference list.</p><p>References to be added are as follows:</p><p>Clark, S. J., Schultz, S. L., Gebremariam, A., Singer, D. C., &amp; Woolford, S. J. (2023, October). <i>Promoting children's independence: What parents say vs. do</i> (Vol. 44, Issue 2). C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, University of Michigan. https://mottpoll.org/reports/promoting-childrens-independence-what-parents-say-vs-do.</p><p>Roisman, G. I., Padrón, E., Sroufe, L. A., &amp; Egeland, B. (2002). Earned-secure attachment status in retrospect and prospect. <i>Child Development, 73</i>(4), 1204–1219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00467.</p><p>Shaki, O., Gupta, G. K., Yadav, P., &amp; Faisal, F. A. (2022). Helicopter parenting, from good intentions to poor outcomes: What parents needs to know? <i>Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 11</i>(8), 4753–4757. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2474_21.</p><p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148708466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking Maternal Problematic Smartphone Use to Maternal Hostility and Warmth Toward Children: A Daily Diary Study of Chinese Families","authors":"Xiaomin Li,&nbsp;Chun Bun Lam,&nbsp;Chung Sze Lam,&nbsp;Kevin Kien Hoa Chung","doi":"10.1111/famp.70185","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although the implications of parental smartphone use for parenting have been discussed among researchers and practitioners, prior studies have mostly focused on the between-person associations of problematic smartphone use with negative parenting behaviors. Therefore, using 5 days of daily diary data, the present study examined whether day-to-day fluctuation in maternal problematic smartphone use was associated with day-to-day fluctuation in maternal hostility as well as warmth toward children, on the same day and on the following day. Data were collected from mothers of 74 fourth graders (mean age = 9.20 years; age range = 8–10 years; 69% were girls) studying in five elementary schools in Hong Kong, China. On each of five consecutive days, mothers filled in an online questionnaire in the evening on their own smartphone use and their parenting behaviors during the day. Random intercept multilevel linear models within the Bayesian framework revealed that on days when mothers used smartphones more problematically (compared to their cross-day averages), they showed more hostility and less warmth toward their children (compared to their cross-day averages) on the same day, even controlling for fluctuation in parenting on the previous day. However, no evidence of lagged-day associations was found. Theoretically, findings pointed to the potential role of parents' problematic smartphone use in understanding daily variation in both negative and positive parenting behaviors. Practically, findings underscored the possible utility of using community education and intervention programs to help parents monitor their smartphone use and foster positive parenting.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13435346/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Positive Family Expressions, and Child Peer Competence Across the Elementary School Years","authors":"Qiong Wu,&nbsp;Xinyun Kaikai Zhang,&nbsp;Frances MacVicar,&nbsp;Cho Rong Lee,&nbsp;Karina Jalapa","doi":"10.1111/famp.70183","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70183","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Maternal depressive symptoms, especially given their severity and chronicity, can pose risks to children's peer competence. Yet, there is a potential for positive family expressions to buffer this effect. Guided by a developmental cascades framework, this study focused on a three-way interaction among children's peer competence at school entry, positive family expressions, and maternal depressive symptoms in predicting children's peer skills over the elementary school years among U.S. families (<i>N</i> = 1364). Peer competence and positive peer interactions were measured through parental reports and school observations, respectively, in Grades 3 and 5. Positive family expressions were assessed by two caregivers in Grades 3, 4, and 5, and maternal depressive symptoms were self-reported in Grades 1, 3, and 5. A path model revealed a three-way interaction: children with higher peer competence in Grade 1 showed lower positive peer interactions in Grade 5, only under high levels of maternal depressive symptoms and high positive family expressions. In addition, maternal depressive symptoms predicted lower peer competence in Grade 5 under high positive family expressions. The findings underscore person–environment interactions in peer competence development and suggest a nuanced understanding of the role of positive emotion socialization in contexts of high maternal depressive symptoms. These findings emphasize the need for family-based interventions addressing maternal depressive symptoms and children's social competence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychosocial Pathways Linking Patriarchal Family Culture to Mental Health Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults","authors":"Anna Starowicz,&nbsp;Anna Wnuk,&nbsp;Tomasz Oleksy,&nbsp;Małgorzata Gambin","doi":"10.1111/famp.70184","DOIUrl":"10.1111/famp.70184","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) individuals often face a lack of acceptance within their families, which can have lasting consequences for mental health and well-being. In this article, we focus on one family model that may be particularly risk-enhancing in this regard—patriarchal families, characterized by binary thinking, hierarchical assumptions about gender and age, and an obedience-oriented family order. We examine whether family identity and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) mediate the relationship between patriarchal family culture and mental health outcomes. A sample of 203 TGNB adults in Poland completed measures of perceived family support for patriarchal culture, family identity, childhood adversity, and mental health indicators (symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety, as well as life satisfaction). Path analysis showed that growing up in families perceived as strongly supportive of patriarchal culture was associated with lower family identity and higher levels of ACEs. Both these factors mediated the effect of patriarchal family culture on depressive symptoms. ACEs alone mediated anxiety, while family identity alone mediated life satisfaction. These findings suggest that patriarchal family culture may relate to mental health largely through the disruption of family identity and early adverse experiences. It underscores the need for interventions, policies, and therapeutic practices that move beyond rigid family models and individual coping, and instead address patriarchal power dynamics by fostering inclusive, safe, and validating relationships for TGNB individuals.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148609888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}